Shadow Finance Minister Bire Kimisopa

Sovereign Wealth Fund will help PNG: Shadow Finance Minister

Shadow Finance Minister Bire Kimisopa made this statement in Parliament yesterday after the supplementary budget was tabled by Treasury Minister Patrick Pruaitch.   

“If we have a sovereign wealth fund we will be able to mitigate all these, we will be able to support the budget, and perhaps consolidate the exchange rate and give confidence to private sector in terms of the foreign currency situation in the country to access foreign currency to pay for goods and services overseas,” Kimisopa said.

Price of goods continues to soar

The Goroka MP made this statement in Parliament after the supplementary budget was tabled by Treasury Minister Patrick Pruaitch yesterday.     

“The medium term fiscal outcome is quite clear in terms of inflation, if you look at 2011 it started roughly about 4 percent and we are tracking on an upward projected for 2016 is 6.6 percent, I suspect by end of the year we could go up to 6.8 or 6.9 percent,” Kimisopa said.